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Small World Educational Center

A licensed child care center in Brownsville, Texas 78521

5601 Paso Real Dr, Brownsville, Texas 78521. (956) 838-0144.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas Workforce Commission on Nov 2, 2026.

The last 24 months 2 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2025. Most serious: Medium High. Every month

Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.

What these words mean5
Inspection (survey)
A visit by state inspectors, often unannounced, who check a place against the rules it must meet. For nursing homes and other places Medicare pays, CMS calls these visits surveys: a standard survey of a nursing home comes at least every 15 months, and a complaint survey whenever a complaint calls for one. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.308.
Deficiency, citation, violation
What inspectors write up when a place didn’t meet a rule: the rule, what they saw, and when. CMS calls it a deficiency; states may say citation or violation. It is the inspectors’ finding, not a court’s, and the place is usually asked for a plan to correct it. Source: CMS, statement of deficiencies (Form CMS-2567); each state’s licensing agency.
Texas’s risk levels
Texas gives each child care deficiency a risk level, by how likely it is to harm a child: Low, Medium Low, Medium, Medium High or High. High is its most serious. Source: Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child Care Regulation.
Licence status
Whether the state’s licence lets the place operate now, in the state’s own words: licensed, on probation (allowed to keep operating on conditions, after problems), provisional, pending or expired. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.
Capacity
The most people the licence or certification lets the place care for at once: residents, children, beds or apartments, as the state counts them. It isn’t how many are there now. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.

What did inspectors find?

2 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 198 child care providers in Cameron County had 2.

10 inspections on record. The latest, on Aug 6, 2026: no violation found.

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

2 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2025. Most serious: Medium High. The last 3 years, to Nov 2, 2026.

2 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 Dec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNov

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No visit on record Visited, nothing cited A stronger orange is more serious, on its source’s own levels, read onto four bands: from the least serious it publishes to the most
Source:

Hearth Record drew this from the dates and levels in the source’s own records.

Each deficiency, in Texas’s words

Grouped by visit, newest first, with the risk level Texas gave it, from Low to High.

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

Sep 9, 2025: inspection1 deficiency

  • Documented Annual Training - Remaining training hour topics

    “Two of four files reviewed were missing topics which are required annually.Both files were missing Emergency Preparedness, Preventing and Controlling the Spread of Communicable Diseases, including immunizations, Administering Medications and Handling, Storing and dispozing of Hazardous Materials. One file was also missing Preventing and respoinding to Emergncies Due to Food or an Allergic Reaction.”

    Rule 746.1309(f). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 30, 2025. Correction verified: Sep 16, 2025.

Sep 11, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Child Passenger Safety Seat System - Not expired or damaged in accident

    “Transportation vehicles had four expired booster seats. NOTE: CORRECTED at the time of inspection as booster seats were removed.”

    Rule 746.5607(b). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Corrected during the inspection. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Sep 11, 2024.

4 deficiencies older than three years
Mar 30, 2023: report to the state3 deficiencies

  • Supervision ensures each child?s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child?s on going activity

    “The driver forgot a child was not in the vehicle and left the school.”

    Rule 746.1205(a)(4). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 28, 2023. Correction verified: May 12, 2023.

  • Release of Children

    “A child was released to school personnel at a school the child does not attend.”

    Rule 746.4101. High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 28, 2023. Correction verified: May 12, 2023.

  • Policies for Release of Children

    “The operation’s policy on the release of children does not include how to verify the identity of a person to whom they release a child from a transportation vehicle.”

    Rule 746.4103(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 28, 2023. Correction verified: May 12, 2023.

Nov 3, 2022: inspection1 deficiency

  • Maintenance Procedures for Active Play - Hazards Removed or Repaired

    “A piece of playground equipment is broken and needs to be either removed or repaired. Children will not be allowed to use it if not repaired.”

    Rule 746.4751(c). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Nov 7, 2022. Correction verified: Dec 21, 2022.

All 11 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Aug 6, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Sep 9, 2025Inspection1 deficiency cited
Sep 25, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Sep 17, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Sep 11, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Oct 4, 2023InspectionNo violation found
May 12, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Apr 3, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Mar 30, 2023Report to the state3 deficiencies cited
Nov 3, 2022Inspection1 deficiency cited
Dec 9, 2021InspectionNo violation found

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Jun 6, 2013.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 60 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

  • No corrective or adverse action by Texas on record.
  • 1 report to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were .
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

Who does the caring?

  • Texas doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual providers. State rules set staff-to-child ratios by age.

Who owns it?

  • Texas’s open data doesn’t list owners.

How is it rated?

  • Texas Rising Star: 4-Star (the highest of three levels).
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 198 child care providers in Cameron County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 2.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 31, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 198 in Cameron County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
D J Lerma Head Start Child Development Center0
Kidzland Learning Center2
Small World Educational Center This child care provider2
Creative Minds Learning Center1
Alphabet Playhouse Early Childhood Center, LLC1
Little Mermaid Day Care Center2
Lincoln Park School Day Care Center3
The Texas Christian Preschool6
Giggles & Wiggles Daycare3
DBA: Kinder Fun Creative Learning Center2
Felipe R. Perez Head Start Child Development3
Juggi’s Child Care Inc.9

What the record doesn’t say

  • Texas doesn’t publish whether a complaint was substantiated.
  • Texas rates some paperwork slips as High risk, so read what was actually cited.
  • Texas doesn’t publish staffing levels or owners for individual providers.

Sources

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Source:

This copy of the record was made on Nov 2, 2026.

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Not fully inspected in over two years (CMS flag)

11 health citations at the latest inspection cycle

The state average is 14.3.

Source:

CMS, State and US Averages and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

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